Civic ep type R

[stradlegroove]

Hi guys..
I would like to share my recent built, civic ep type R. It's a quick build OOB which takes me 2 weeks to finish it. Actually nothing special with this civic, but I love with the result, I feel kinda relief since my brain was flooded with the images of this civic as one of my favourite car. But having a real car is too far away from reality soo.. making the 1/24 of it hopefully brings the sun rise to ease my "dark cloud" in my brain

So there you go..

























Thanks for looking. Any comments are welcome.

Christopher

[energon]

Polish out that hood and it'll be great!! Looks very nice! White with black always looks hot. Good job!

[janositamas]

Nice job, I really love the red interior accents, sets it off! Nice panel lines also, but something has to be done with the hood, it's not perfect IMHO - no harm was meant anyway!

[stradlegroove]

Thanks guys. I also noticed that there is something wrong with the hood. To tell you the truth, I used $3 cheap gloss black spray paint for the hood since I run out my black TAMIYA spray can. My dumb. That's what I learned from this kit. My big disappointment. Can anyone suggest me how to fix it up?
Thanks in adv

[73superduty]

I think it looks great. I actually thought you meant to do that to the hood only because the rest of the car was very clean.

As was recommended you could probably polish the hood out and save it, or at least knock down the roughness and throw a sheet of carbon fiber over it.

Anyway, I really like it. The ying-yang paint schemes are my favorite on most cars.

Chris

[DjNightWolf]

polish out a litle bit all over the car,specially on hood,and it will be very nice!

congrats!

[m0n0x!de]

Change the rims. Put in some larger ones. It will change everything!

[energon]

Pick up some Tamiya rubbing compound or someting similar and just polish the hood out. Depending on how rough it really is, you might also want to pick up some 2000 grit sand paper, soak it in water and dish soap, and lightly sand the hood. Make sure the ruest of the car is masked off before doing that. As suggested you could get it smoothed out and throw some carbon fiber decal on there as well. I like the wheels. Big wheels aren't necisarily the best way to go.

[stradlegroove]

Thanks so much for all advices, guys. So yeah for sure, I need to polish it out. Actually, I'm bit scared with polishing because I always failed so many times with my previous kits. After I had sprayed clear throughout the whole body and left it for about 2 days, I began to polish. But it turned out that the shine look of the clear begin to fade. Is this normal? Or the problem comes from the polish product? I use general car polish (compound).

Christopher

[stradlegroove]

Originally Posted by m0n0x!de

Change the rims. Put in some larger ones. It will change everything!

I prefer to stay with small rims like 17 inch, it looks fast in my opinion
But thanks anyway

[wrexink]

Very nice Clean Build! I love JDM. Hey how do you do the black door outlines and where the body kits meet?

[stradlegroove]

Originally Posted by wrexink

Very nice Clean Build! I love JDM. Hey how do you do the black door outlines and where the body kits meet?

Thanks.

I dare not to say that it's JDM since I don't know what the criteria of JDM car is actually. If it is, I love JDM then haha

For the body line, I used STAEDTLER pigment liner 0.05 (kinda marker). It's easy to use and save much time But the disadvantage is that it looks a bit thicker in bright colour body s.a white, yellow, silver, ...

[wrexink]

I think it still looks good with those lines. JDM is Japanese Domestic Market. Hey how did you make it look like static on the tv?

Originally Posted by stradlegroove

Thanks.

I dare not to say that it's JDM since I don't know what the criteria of JDM car is actually. If it is, I love JDM then haha

For the body line, I used STAEDTLER pigment liner 0.05 (kinda marker). It's easy to use and save much time But the disadvantage is that it looks a bit thicker in bright colour body s.a white, yellow, silver, ...

[rod_k2]

Originally Posted by stradlegroove

After I had sprayed clear throughout the whole body and left it for about 2 days, I began to polish. But it turned out that the shine look of the clear begin to fade. Is this normal? Or the problem comes from the polish product? I use general car polish (compound).

I think [I think!] you're polishing too early. You'll have to let that paint dry a little bit more!
Let it dry for a week or so [it scared me on the beggining,but after I paint it,i hope that the week is endless,because i'm kinda lazy when it comes to polishing... ]
But you can get a food dehydrator,it makes drying much faster!
I wetsanded-coumpounded my R34 [died a loong time ago! ],it was the shiniest paintjob I ever had!
But I primered/cleared/polished/waxed in less than a day and a half,without a food dehydrator.

Clear cracked.

Hope it helps!

[stradlegroove]

Originally Posted by rod_k2

I think [I think!] you're polishing too early. You'll have to let that paint dry a little bit more!
Let it dry for a week or so [it scared me on the beggining,but after I paint it,i hope that the week is endless,because i'm kinda lazy when it comes to polishing... ]
But you can get a food dehydrator,it makes drying much faster!
I wetsanded-coumpounded my R34 [died a loong time ago! ],it was the shiniest paintjob I ever had!
But I primered/cleared/polished/waxed in less than a day and a half,without a food dehydrator.

Clear cracked.

Hope it helps!

Great advice. Thanks a lot. Yes, me too, I'm too lazy to wait the paint dry Maybe I need to be more patient next time haha..